Archives - 11 February 2018, Sunday

NEW YORK • An 18-month-old boy with Down syndrome has been named by American baby food-maker Gerber as its "spokesbaby" for this year, the company said last week, an action hailed by advocates for people with the genetic condition. Lucas Warren of Dalton, Georgia, won Gerber's annual ...

Aerial view of Singapore's Civic District including the Singapore Parliament. Singapore is to have a new cybersecurity tsar with wide-ranging powers to seize confidential information and impose penalties under legislation passed by its parliament on Monday last week. The Cybersecurity...

In less than a week’s time, we will be ushering in a brand new lunar year – The Year Of The Dog. We believe there is never a more fitting time for us to showcase some of the most adorable Singapore Dogs to follow on Instagram. Other than filling your feeds with pretty photos or videos...

Singapore may unveil an e-commerce tax in next week’s budget, setting the tone for a region that’s grappling with online retail’s assault on brick-and-mortar vendors. Eight of the 12 economists in a Bloomberg survey said the Feb. 19 budget will contain a new tax on online vendors, wit...

“On February 7th 1944, F/O (Flight Officer) Tan set out on a combined vertical photographic and visual reconnaissance in the LITTORIA-CORI area. They arrived during a bombing attack on the beach-head, and 20+ bandits were reported. F/O Tan and his weaver were intercepted by 5. 190’s (...

The deadly crash of a People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) military plane in Guizhou province last month during a training exercise has raised questions about whether China's relentless push for military modernisation has outpaced its actual capabilities. The incident, which cla...

Taxes undoubtedly influence trading decisions. But rule of law, availability of trusted peers, predictability of outcomes (including of counterparties' bankruptcy), are also important considerations. India should have worked on these "softer" aspects while allowing investors to contin...

SINGAPORE, Singapore — Singapore may unveil an e-commerce tax in next week’s budget, setting the tone for a region that’s grappling with online retail’s assault on brick-and-mortar vendors. Eight of the 12 economists in a Bloomberg survey said the February 19 budget will contain a new...

The Asia-Pacific region will lead the world in demand for pilots over the next 20 years, according to Boeing’s Pilot Outlook 2017-2036 , with an estimated 253,000 new crewmembers needed. A few of these future hires just gained an inside track to a job at Singapore Airlines, under a pa...

• When combining spaces to create one big communal space, the flow of the home should be consistent. Design-wise, use similar, if not the same, palette and laminate for the walls and carpentry works. This is to ensure consistency and maintain a sense of flow throughout the space. • En...

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Authorities in one of China’s poorest regions are hoping that a multibillion-yuan bet on a huge block of land by a Singaporean shipping company can be the catalyst for an ambitious trade project that has languished for a decade. The goal is to turn the 3 sq km barren block in Nanning,...

On an Australian afternoon, in a sunlit country town, I stand on a main street of contemplative quiet. It is wide, paved, vacant. It is devoid of faces and absent of footsteps. I see the post office, the general store, a secondhand book store, a pub, but it's like the deserted set of ...

"The Trump Effect" appears to have reversed a decade-long downward spiral in U.S. economic liberty, according to a new Heritage Foundation report. "The United States has suspended its long decline in the Index rankings," Heritage reports, "raising its score for the first time in a dec...

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Even when anti-terrorism was the central focus of the declared US defence strategy, competing against China was still seen as paramount. Successive US governments refused to extradite those Chinese nationals who were arrested by US forces in Afghan battlefields. The US government dete...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stoked anger and protests among his conservative supporters for attending the Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, sought to find common ground with South Korean President Moon Jae In. Yet, he left South Korea on Saturday night having been ...

BANGKOK: The Thai government has made it clear that the proposed Kra Canal project is neither a priority currently nor does it have a policy on the proposed man-made waterway which will link the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Government spokesman, Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said ...

DUBAI: Gulf metropolis Dubai, on its never-ending quest to break records, announced the opening of the "world's new tallest hotel" on Sunday (Feb 11), pipping another towering landmark in the city for the title. The gleaming gold 75-storey Gevora Hotel stands at 356 metres tall. That'...

An invisible security blanket that has been protecting Singapore from potential air threats after 2006 is seeking an upgrade in a new frontier: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) engineers involved in the country's enhanced Island Air Defence...

BUKIT MERTAJAM (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A fake viral message alleging that an orphanage was unable to feed its children for months did the non-profit home good, though well-wishers sent them so much food that they are now finding it difficult to handle. Pusat Jagaan Sinar Ceria ...

QIAOLI, China (NYTimes) - A monument to China's efforts to wean itself from coal rises on the outskirts of this village deep in the heart of the nation's coal country. Scores of old coal stoves have been dumped in a lot, removed by government decree in recent months in favour of clean...

‘FAB’ hauls his gargantuan Sukhoi Su-30MKM Flanker into a gentle left turn, plugs the ‘burners for some airspeed and levels off before pulling back on the stick and grabbing sky like a moon-bound Saturn V. Outside, vortices stream from the multirole fighter’s canard foreplanes as mois...

Parenting in the digital age is tough. As a father of three daughters aged seven to 16, I worry about my kids stumbling upon smut or other unsuitable content. Another fear - of them spending too much time playing games instead of figuring out the answers to that challenging maths ques...

Cameroon's national youth holiday was marred by violence on Sunday, with three soldiers killed and a local official feared kidnapped by suspected separatists in the country's restive English-speaking regions. Dozens of people have been killed in the west African country's two anglopho...

Bengaluru, Dec 19: Senior Congress leader, Mallikarjuna Kharge is in trouble with the Lokayukta probing a case that alleges that he owns Rs 50,000 crore worth of property, according to reports. The allegation is that he has amassed wealth disproportionate to his known source of income...

WASHINGTON (NYTimes)- President Donald Trump is expected to unveil on Monday (Feb 12) a plan that would fulfill one of his signature campaign promises: a US$1.5 trillion (S$2 trillion), once-in-a-generation proposal to rebuild, restore and modernise the nation's ageing infrastructure....

SEGAMAT, 11 Feb. – Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi will meet with his Singaporean counterpart, Teo Chee Hean, to discuss proposals on establishing a single immigration checkpoint at the Causeway. He said Singapore will have to form an action committee, as has been...